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  • He was actively awake to British interests in all parts of the globe; and President Kruger, who had tried to check trade with Cape Town by stopping the Cape railway at his frontier, and then by closing the 'Drifts' or fords over the Vaal, was compelled to give way and to keep to the agreements made with the

    Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies George Henry Blore

  • 'Drifts' question between Cape and Transvaal Government.

    Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies George Henry Blore

  • In this decade, I could cite the realization that my relationship with Yorda in Ico came essentially entirely from gameplay and not cutscenes, the embedded storytelling to be found on the walls and within the cracks of BioShock's Rapture, the blinding white of the Penandra Drifts from behind my helmet in Metroid Prime, the in-game gradual realization of your escape in Portal.

    Great Big Bites SVGL 2009

  • Drifts of red dust choked the irrigation channels.

    The Wall « A Fly in Amber 2009

  • Drifts off on a sepia-toned wave of nostalgia The pitches were hopeless.

    Small Talk: Mark Lawrenson 2011

  • Drifts of snow as high as my waist buried its branches deeper.

    On Earth Day, Praise for Trees, Nature's Prophets 2010

  • Drifts of cherry blossom whirled on the pavements as I made my way towards my favourite Prunus avium "Plena", which overhangs the railings of Kennington Park.

    London's fragrant front gardens 2010

  • Drifts of fallen leaves mixing and matching and blocking the storm drains.

    The wet wild woods jhetley 2008

  • I agree with Joe Cochrane's illustrations of the enormous challenges faced by Indonesia, but he is dead wrong if he suggests that President S.B. Yudhoyono's reform is "drifting" ( "Jakarta Drifts," Feb. 19).

    Mail Call 2007

  • Drifts as high as three feet shutting down highways.

    CNN Transcript Jan 22, 2007 2007

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